Name: Professor Francis Barr
Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford
http://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/aspsite/index.asp?pageid=824

Events this person is speaking at:

Friday 6 November 2015

Control of cell division by the PP2A-B55 pathway: basic principles really can be a matter of life and death
Date: 6 November 2015, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Jo Peel (University of Oxford, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Matthew Freeman (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)

Thursday 28 April 2016

Supercharging cell division: how protein phosphatases define the temporal order of mitosis & cytokinesis
Date: 28 April 2016, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI (Basement seminar room) (Note: not the ORCRB)
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Skirmantas Kriaucionis (Ludwig Cancer Research)

Monday 27 November 2017

Regulation of cell division by protein phosphatases: from mitosis to melanoma
Date: 27 November 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: OUBS (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Events this person is hosting:

Monday 30 November 2015

"Kinetochores: from microtubule attachment to spindle assembly checkpoint signalling"
Date: 30 November 2015, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Dr. Andrea Musacchio (Director of the Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology at the Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, Germany)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Meeting Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Monday 11 April 2016

'Atomic structure of human γ-secretase'
Date: 11 April 2016, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Dr. Xiao-Chen Bai (MRC, LMB, Cambridge)
Venue Details: Department of Biochemistry
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

'Architecture of mTOR complex 1'
Date: 11 April 2016, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr. Christopher Aylett (IMBB, ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Venue Details: New Biochemistry
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 10 May 2016

'Principles of pluripotency: from the ground state up'
Date: 10 May 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Austin G Smith, FRS, FRSE (Medical Research Council Professor, Wellcome Trust-MRC Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Friday 1 July 2016

"Chromosome organization by SMC complexes: linking sisters and extruding loops”
Date: 1 July 2016, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr. Benjamin Rowland (Research Associate, Netherlands Cancer Institute)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Monday 17 October 2016

Gene regulation in chromatin
Date: 17 October 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Dirk Schübeler (Senior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Thursday 10 November 2016

In vitro construction of a metabolic network for cell volume regulation
Date: 10 November 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Dr. Bert Poolman (Department of Biochemistry, University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Monday 5 December 2016

Molecular Mechanisms involved in the Regulation of Appetite and Weight
Date: 5 December 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Sadaf Farooqi PhD, FRCP, FMedSci (WT Senior Clinical Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Monday 9 January 2017

Understanding the function and evolution of regulatory protein-RNA complexes
Date: 9 January 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Jernej Ule (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, The Francis Crick Institute, Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, London)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Monday 16 January 2017

"Gams to go: establishing and exploiting experimentally inducible sexual development in a malaria parasite"
Date: 16 January 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor A.P. Waters (Professor of Molecular and Developmental Parasitology, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Director, Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Monday 6 February 2017

Mitotic Checkpoint Kinases in Cancer Development and Treatment
Date: 6 February 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof. Dr. Rene H. Medema (Director of Research, Chairman Board of Directors, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 28 February 2017

A molecular movie of the excitation and contraction coupling of skeletal muscles
Date: 28 February 2017, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Nieng Yan (Professor in the School of Medicine at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Monday 3 April 2017

A new rationale for TF paralog evolution, expression and function
Date: 3 April 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Matthias Merkenschlager (Lymphocyte Development Group, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, London)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Wednesday 24 May 2017

The cryoEM revolution in structural biology
Date: 24 May 2017, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Richard Henderson, FRS (Programme Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Hosts: Professor Mark Sansom (Department of Biochemistry), Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Monday 12 June 2017

Establishment and Maintenance of Specialised Chromatin Domains
Date: 12 June 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Robin Allshire (Professor of Chromosome Biology, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Monday 3 July 2017

Plasticity of neural circuits, from development to function
Date: 3 July 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Arantza Barrios (Research Associate, University College London)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Wednesday 5 July 2017

‘Targeting transcription through disruption of BET complexes’
Date: 5 July 2017, 9:00 - 09:30
Speaker : Dr. Panagis Filippakopoulos (SGC, University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

'Unusual RNA/DNA structures in health and disease'
Date: 5 July 2017, 9:35 - 10:05
Speaker : Dr. Natalia Gromak (Group Leader, Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

‘Molecular Mechanisms in Brain Development’
Date: 5 July 2017, 10:55 - 11:25
Speaker : Dr. Elena Seiradake (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

‘Biology in solution: from the atomic scale to mechanistic biochemistry’
Date: 5 July 2017, 11:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr. Sylvia McLain (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Wednesday 25 April 2018

'chaperoning SNARE assembly to control membrane fusion'
Date: 25 April 2018, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Fred Hughson (Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Monday 2 July 2018

Mitosis, genome stability and cancer chemotherapy
Date: 2 July 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Stephen Taylor (Leech Professor of Pharmacology, Manchester Cancer Research Centre, University of Manchester)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Friday 5 April 2019

“Cryo-EM snapshots of the catalytic spliceosome - and RNA heart in a malleable protein body”
Date: 5 April 2019, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr. Sebastian Fica (MRC, LMB, Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 9 April 2019

"Towards Design of Universal Influenza Vaccines and Therapeutics"
Date: 9 April 2019, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Ian A. Wilson, D.Phil, D.Sc, FRS, FRSE (Hansen Professor of Structural Biology, Chair Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, US)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Thursday 23 May 2019

Preprints: communicating at the speed of science
Date: 23 May 2019, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Richard Sever (Co-Founder of bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Press)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

"Preprints: communication at the speed of science"
Date: 23 May 2019, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr. Richard Sever (Assistant Director of CSHL Press and Co-Founder of the preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Stephen Tucker (Biological Physics Group, Oxford Department of Physics)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Wednesday 5 June 2019

Illuminating the Molecular Choreography of Multi-segmented Viral Genomes
Date: 5 June 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Alex Borodavka (Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Wednesday 11 September 2019

“Molecular Diversity in Regulating Bacterial Potassium Uptake”
Date: 11 September 2019, 8:45 - 09:15
Speaker : Dr. Inga Hanelt (Goethe-University, Frankfurt)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

“The Mycobacterium ulcerans exotoxin, mycolactone: a novel inhibitor of Sec61-dependent translocation that drives Buruli ulcer pathogenesis”
Date: 11 September 2019, 9:20 - 09:50
Speaker : Dr. Rachel Simmonds (University of Surrey)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

“Epigenetic inheritance: the curious case of the human centromere”
Date: 11 September 2019, 9:55 - 10:25
Speaker : Dr. Lars Jansen (Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Biochemistry, Oxford University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

“Sweet coats: Diverse mechanisms of microbial polysaccharide secretion”
Date: 11 September 2019, 10:45 - 11:15
Speaker : Professor Jochen Zimmer (University of Virginia)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

"To divide or not to divide: The interplay of cell cycle decision-making and post-translational modifications"
Date: 11 September 2019, 11:20 - 11:50
Speaker : Dr. Joerg Mansfeld (Technische Universitat Dresden)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Wednesday 23 October 2019

“Dissecting RNA Localisation and Local Translation in Neurons”
Date: 23 October 2019, 9:00 - 09:30
Speaker : Dr. Marina Chekulaeva (Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Germany)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

“Mechanism of Nitrogenase: Electrocatalysis at a Dinuclear Active Site”
Date: 23 October 2019, 9:35 - 10:05
Speaker : Professor Oliver Einsle (Institute for Biochemistry, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Germany)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

“Functional organelle remodeling during adipocyte differentiation”
Date: 23 October 2019, 10:10 - 10:40
Speaker : Dr. Robin Klemm (Institute of Molecular Sciences, University of Zurich)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

“Understanding how cellular RNA-binding proteins control virus infection”
Date: 23 October 2019, 10:55 - 11:25
Speaker : Dr Alfredo Castello Palomares (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

"Regulation of vesicle acidification at the neuronal synapse"
Date: 23 October 2019, 11:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Ira Milosevic (European Neuroscience Institute - max Planck Society and University Medical Center Gottingen Joint Initiative, Gottingen)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Monday 4 November 2019

“Tuning gears for the tubulin motor: insights from in vitro reconstitution”
Date: 4 November 2019, 8:45 - 09:30
Speaker : Dr. Vladimir Volkov (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

“Exon-centric functional genomics uncovers splice variants underlying normal physiology & disease-related phenotypes”
Date: 4 November 2019, 9:35 - 10:20
Speaker : Dr. Thomas Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis (Blencowe Laboratory, University of Toronto)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

"Towards anti-resistance antimicrobial chemotherapeutic strategies using large-scale chemical-genetics”
Date: 4 November 2019, 10:35 - 11:20
Speaker : Dr. Eachan Johnson (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, US)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

"Viral manipulation of information transfer in biology: structural and functional insights"
Date: 4 November 2019, 11:25 - 12:10
Speaker : Dr. Chris Hill (Queen's College, Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

“The role of mobile DNA in spreading antimicrobial resistance and virulence”
Date: 4 November 2019, 12:15 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr. Ana Cehovin (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

“Modelling the dynamic organisation of complex cell membranes: from the nano to the meso scale”
Date: 4 November 2019, 14:00 - 14:45
Speaker : Dr Anna Duncan (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Friday 25 June 2021

“How dynein and dynactin transport different cargos along microtubules”
Date: 25 June 2021, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr. Clinton Lau (Carter Laboratory, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Wednesday 23 March 2022

“Coping and adapting for bacteria: How you can learn to thrive under stress”
Date: 23 March 2022, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Stephan Uphoff (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Phase 2 Main Seminar Room and an overflow to the Lower Ground Floor Atrium Area
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Friday 6 May 2022

'Starting protein synthesis: How ribosomes initiate on mRNA'
Date: 6 May 2022, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Thursday 16 March 2023

Functional organisation of pericentromeres in mitosis and meiosis
Date: 16 March 2023, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Adele Marston (Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Phase 2 Main Seminar Room, Ground Floor
Organiser: Madhu Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Monday 17 April 2023

'High-resolution cryoEM of membrane protein complexes'
Date: 17 April 2023, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Werner Kuehlbrandt (Director, Department of Structural Biology, MPI of Biophysics, Germany)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Phase 2 Main Seminar Room, Ground Floor
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Monday 2 October 2023

'Structural Insights into the Regulation of the Gene Silencer PRC2
Date: 2 October 2023, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Eva Nogales De La Morena (Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, UC Berkeley; Investigator, HHMI; Senior Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Phase 2 Main Seminar Room, Ground Floor
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Hosts: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford ), Dame Professor Carol Robinson (FRS)

Wednesday 17 April 2024

'Visualising the molecular mechanisms of eukaryotic DNA replication'
Date: 17 April 2024, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr. Morgan Jones (Staff Scientist, Yeeles Lab, MRC LMB Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Friday 17 May 2024

‘Mechanism for Membrane Protein Insertion and Complex Assembly’
Date: 17 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr. Haoxi Wu (Postdoctoral Fellow, Hegde Lab, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 28 May 2024

'Signaling by The Ubiquitin System’
Date: 28 May 2024, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Dr. Brenda A. Schulman (Director, Molecular Machines and Signaling, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Monday 2 February 2025

TBC
Date: 2 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Julie Welburn (Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, The University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

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Thursday 23 May 2019

Preprints: communicating at the speed of science
Date: 23 May 2019, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Richard Sever (Co-Founder of bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Press)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )